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Colour for colour, skin for skin : marching with the ancestral spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay /
"The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and his allies, overwhelmed by colonial firepower and betrayed by Maroons in service to the British Crown,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami :
Ian Randle Publishers,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Liberty of person liberty of land : the Morant Bay Rebellion
- its socio-economic and political bases
- 2. It is money they [planters] want, and not labour : free trade, cane sugar and post-slavery economy in free fall
- 3. Buckra has gun, Negro has firestick : post-Emancipation political struggles
- 4. Their very independence is an evil : cane sugar elites creating inflammable materials in post-slavery society
- 5. Legal redress is shut out form one class altogether : Magisterial oppression in St Thomas-in-the-East
- 6. Colour for colour, skin for skin: the intellectual foundations and leadership of the Morant Bay Rebellion
- 7. You are no longer slaves, but free men : George William Gordon: the brown link ideology and politics
- 8. Buccra can't catch Duppy, no, no : marching into war oh with the spirits at Morant Bay
- 9. Take a thousand black men's hearts for one white man's ear : the suppression of the Black Jamaican masses in 1865
- a general survey
- 10. He set my house on fire, and I was in childsbirth : the suppression of the black woman
- 11. Factors which accounted for the defeat of the People's Rising
- 12. The nature of the 'Negro Character' determined the 'Character of the Negro Insurrections' : the philosophical and ideological justifications for the suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion.